Health Sector
Ricardo Batista
Advices public and private healthcare organizations and communities on analytical activities including policy analysis, big data analytics and research for building a better society by creating transformation and advance of the health care Sector
Gatineau
WORKING AREAS
Ricardo serves leading healthcare organizations, diverse populations and communities on day-to-day problem-solving and team analytical activities. His primary areas of expertise include performance measurement, health policy and clinical research. He has extensively served public health care, not-for-profit organizations, governments and communities for more than 15 years.
Ricardo as public health consultant helps our clients to conduct research in public health surveillance and applied epidemiological analysis using both population-based and administrative data applying advanced statistical methods.
He has supported a great number of MSEG’s clients to co-develop community health interventions to improve the diverse vulnerable population health particularly, in the strategy and study of health inequalities, social determinants of health on the primary health care context.
EXPERIENCE
Various Research Positions at University of Ottawa- Research Institute and the Canadian Collaboration for Immigrant and Refugee Health
Health Canada
Epidemiologist
PAHO/WHO
Various International health advisory positions in Central American countries (Dominican Republic, El Salvador Panama)
Government of Bolivia, Ministry of Health
National Coordinator of Surveillance and Health Analysis Unit
EDUCATION
University of Ottawa
PhD, Population Health
Pedro Kouri Institute, La Havana
MSc, Epidemiology
Institute of Medical Sciences of Havana – Faculty of Medicine
MD Esp. Family Medicine and Community Health
Institute of Medical Sciences of Havana – Faculty of Medicine
MD. Medicine
PUBLISHED WORK
RESEARCH
Quality and Safety in Long-Term Care in Ontario: The Impact of Language Discordance. 2021 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jamda.2020.12.007
The impact of hospital language on the rate of in-hospital harm. A retrospective cohort study of home care recipients in Ontario, Canada.2020 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7175496/
Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews 2020 https://doi.org/10.1002/14651858.MR000052
The impact of dementia and language on hospitalizations: a retrospective cohort of long-term care residents.2020 https://doi.org/10.1186/s12877-020-01806-2
In-Hospital Patient Harm Across Linguistic Groups: A Retrospective Cohort Study of Home Care Recipients.2020. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32433437/
The Health Impact of Living in a Nursing Home with a Predominantly Different Spoken Language. 2019 https://www.jamda.com/article/S1525-8610(19)30489-X/fulltext
Does End-of-Life Care Differ for Anglophones and Francophones? A Retrospective Cohort Study of Decedents in Ontario https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/jpm.2018.0233
Impact of health care reform on enrollment of immigrants in primary care models in Ontario, Canada.2018 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30219848
Santé mentale chez les francophones en situation linguistique minoritaire. https://www.erudit.org/en/journals/ref/1900-v1-n1-ref04123/1053864ar/
Santé mentale et maladies mentales des jeunes francophones de 15 à 24 Ans : Données de l’Enquête sur la santé dans les collectivités canadiennes. 2018 https://www.erudit.org/en/journals/minling/2018-n9-minling03448/1043504ar/
Primary Health Care Models Addressing Health Equity for Immigrants: A Systematic Scoping Review.2016.
http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10903-016-0531-y
Research on Health Inequalities: A Bibliometric Analysis (1966-2014). 2015 http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0277953615300381
Rejecting and Accepting International Migrant Patients into Primary Care Practices: A Mixed Method Study. 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/IJMHSC-04-2014-0013
Improving the Delivery of Primary Health Care for Vulnerable Migrants: A Delphi Consensus to Prioritize Innovative Practice Strategies https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3994840/
POLICY
Bolivian Maternal and Child Health Policies: Successes and Failures. http://www.focal.ca/pdf/health_SilvaBatista_Bolivian%20maternal%20child%20health%20policies_May%202010_e.pdf